Tomcat - Resolve "Exception fixing docBase for context" in Tomcat

by
Jeremy Canfield |
Updated: September 29 2023
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This error appears in a JVMs catalina.log. Immediately following "Exception fixing docBase for context" should be more details regarding the cause of the exception. In this example, the cause of the exception is "error in opening zip file".
SEVERE: Exception fixing docBase for context [/example]
java.util.zip.ZipException: error in opening zip file
This error should occur during the deploy of a WAR, and usually suggests that either the WAR is corrupt or there is a permissions issue.
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